Back to McAllen, Texas, This Time to Look at Private Insurance Spending

By

Katherine Hobson

Aug 10, 2011 3:37 pm ET

We already know that health-care spending and use can vary wildly depending on where a person lives.

But most of that evidence comes from Medicare data, notably reports by the Dartmouth Atlas Project. Those analyses don’t say anything about spending patterns for people covered by commercial insurance.

A report out today from Thomson Reuters tackles that issue. It looks at spending for children, adults and seniors covered by employer-based insurance. And, like the Medicare analyses, it finds geographic variation …

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